Betsy DeVos wasn’t well received when she visited Marjory Stoneman Douglas High today

In today’s “Who thought this was a good idea” news, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made a semi-surprise visit to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Parkland, Florida school where 17 people were killed in a mass shooting on Valentine’s Day.

DeVos announced her plan to visit the school on Twitter the night before.

The visit was closed to members of the press, which should be an immediate red flag in a situation like this. When journalists can’t hold public officials accountable, nothing good happens. As for the students who survived the Parkland Shooting? They were immediately unimpressed.

Now that DeVos’ visit to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High is complete, we’re learning from the students’ Twitter feeds exactly how it went (spoiler alert: not well). Students claim DeVos was at the school only briefly, and that students were hardly even allowed to interact with her.

Betsy Devos came to my school, talked to three people, and pet a dog. This is incase the press tries to say something else later

DeVos’ camp claimed student media were allowed to follow her on her visit, but tweets from the students claim they were only allowed a brief photo op.

One student from each publication (tv prod./newspaper/yearbook) was able to see her and take pictures of her, no one followed her. We are part of a school publication and it's our job to report on a public figure visiting the school. https://t.co/zE48UAFZky

Do something unexpected: answer our questions. You came to our school just for publicity and avoided our questions for the 90 minutes you were actually here. How about you actually do your job? #neveragain#DoYourJobhttps://t.co/4Ts0INq0gR

In answers to the small handful of questions she allowed to be asked, DeVos skirting around addressing any sort of gun policy that she could help push or endorse. Overall, this whole charade was an insult to the survivors of the Parkland shooting and the students all over the country who are working to actually stop gun violence against kids. Our politicians have to do better — the kids are demanding that they do better. But they’re still not stepping up.